Life's a Stitch

I saw two signs last weekend that have stuck with me. They were both nice professionally made signs. One said "Free Manure – call to make appointment." OK, I’ll put that on my list of tasks: finish writing will, deposit cheques at the bank (how come that’s not banque in Canadian?), book time for teeth cleaning and make appointment to buy manure. The second one really cracked my up. I was laughing out loud in the lady’s room at a Thai restaurant reading the engraved brass plaque on the back of the stall door: " Important notice: This toilet has a history of clogging. Please flush as many times as possible during your stay." It reminded me of when I was in eighth grade. On Saturdays my friends and I participated in a teen bowling league. Afterwards we’d go to a Chinese restaurant for lunch. The lunch special was $1.10 for wonton soup, chow mein, and canned pineapple for dessert. Two of us would split it, .55 each, with negotiations regarding who would get the soup and who would get dessert. The restaurant was called the August Moon. There were rumors that the health department had once closed them down for using cat meat instead of chicken. In that restroom someone had written something else in the stall door: "Flush twice, it’s a long way to the kitchen." Yumm.

I’m still knitting away on my cable scarf  and I’ve started again on my Autumn Silk Cardigan: